How to Use incompatible in a Sentence

incompatible

adjective
  • This printer is incompatible with some PCs.
  • The act, also known as the Williamson Act, can include a fee for the incompatible structures built on the land.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Gone are the days where your only cat tree options are bulky and incompatible with the rest of your decor.
    Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Due to the 3/8-inch chuck, the driver is incompatible with some larger bits.
    Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The two agendas could prove incompatible in the longer term.
    Nicholas Blanford, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The other 11 were a mixed bag: some had defects, and some were healthy but incompatible with Alessia's HLA.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
  • That's when my doctor told me the news, that this baby was incompatible with life.
    Adrienne Broaddus and Jason Kravarik, CNN, 1 July 2022
  • The gene-editing is an attempt to fit a square peg into a round hole — to sand off the incompatible edges of a pig organ to force it to work in a human.
    Rob Stein, NPR, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The truth is the factions of the church family are incompatible with each other.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 8 Jan. 2020
  • There’s never a bad client, just one whose chemistry and makeup are incompatible with the coach.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • What To Watch For If the national parties determine the change is incompatible with their rules, the state could be forced to amend the law or face sanctions.
    Andrew Solender, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • There are ways for free-time-incompatible partners to stay close.
    Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2020
  • In Congo, the desire for a strong leader and faith in freedom are not incompatible.
    Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Foreign Affairs, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The phone acts as a real-time bridge between two incompatible realities — the war in Ukraine and home.
    Erika Kinetz, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Soon after tying the knot, the actress realized that the duo were incompatible in more ways than one.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The most fundamental threat to the success of any Putin-Biden talks is the incompatible nature of the two sides' positions.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Phillips sees support for Trump as incompatible with the district and says Qualls' attacks distort his record of working across the aisle.
    Torey Van Oot Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Give your dog an enrichment item that is incompatible with barking, that keeps their mouth busy, like a Kong or lick mat.
    Hannah Harper, Health.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Jakubowska says the use of such technologies is likely to be incompatible with the EU’s stance on human rights.
    Matt Burgess, Wired, 9 July 2021
  • But at the heart of it lies the fact that there are simply incompatible visions of where the world is going and should be going in Washington and Beijing and so forth.
    CBS News, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Shifty: Of course, a hybrid and a stick shift remain incompatible, so the SE comes with a six-speed automatic.
    Scott Sturgis, Philly.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The pair fail to reconcile their incompatible goals for the future and break up at prom, leaving viewers gutted by what seemed to be a fiery and final end to Joey and Pacey.
    Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2022
  • In some cases, those changes make code written in old versions of the language incompatible with code written in the new language.
    Wired, 25 Nov. 2019
  • What our Christian faith tells us is that, this was a disastrous error, incompatible with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
  • There is no right or wrong on this — these are two different, and incompatible, core desires.
    Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Despite his incompatible build and fear of heights, a small-town plane dreams of one day competing as a high-flying air racer.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The New York Times suggesting that belief in evolution might be incompatible with the Catholic faith.
    Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The problem was that those metals were not stable in air and were incompatible with many other compounds.
    John Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • What the world saw at the White House on Friday was not just a realignment of America’s foreign policy, but a clash of two incompatible styles.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Under state law, village trustee and school board member are considered incompatible offices, the Homer Glen electoral board ruled.
    Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025

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